#dephysicalization

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Episode #283: Brian Barish, Cambiar Investors, “In The Digital Age We’re De-Physicalizing Things” | Meb Faber Research

Episode #283: Brian Barish, Cambiar Investors, “In The Digital Age We’re De-Physicalizing Things” | Meb Faber Research

Episode #283: Brian Barish, Cambiar Investors, “In The Digital Age We’re De-Physicalizing Things”             Guest: Brian Barish is the President and CIO at Cambiar Investors and is responsible for the oversight of all investment functions at the firm. Prior to joining Cambiar in 1997, Mr. Barish served as Director of Emerging Markets Research for Lazard Freres & Co., a New York-based…

[lilyjoycemfa]

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi  The Uprising On poetry and Finance

Money and language have something in common. They are nothing and they move everything.

Capitalist language vs. Poetry.

Capitalist language restricts.

Poetry carries on and on past that. It invites us to come back to our bodies, to our sensibilities and aesthetic self.

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“the dephysicalization of money is part of the general process of abstraction which is the all-encompassing tendency of capitalism”.

“Things are not considered from the point of view of their concrete usefulness, but from that of their exchangeability and exchange value”.

“Effectiveness, not truth value, is the rule of language in the sphere of communication.”

Capitalist/ efficient language is put above poetical language because it is fast and singular in meaning, but misses the multiplicity of ideas that are in poetry (and later on in the reading, described in irony).

“a revolution of value itself, which carries value beyond it’s commodity form into it’s radical form.”

“Symbolism opened a new space for poetic praxis, starting from the emancipation of the word from its referential task”.

this is poetry ^

“...although money and language have something in common, their destinies do not coincide... as language exceeds economic exchange. Poetry is the language of nonexchangability, the return of infinite hermenuetics (interpretation), and the return of the sensuous body of language”.

“the insurrection against financial capitialism is aimed to recompose the social and affective body”

We can feel again, by reading poetry.  Capitalism makes us small, compact. Unable to move away from it.

Makes me think of what Puawai Cairns said in Not today... Can you decolonise an art gallery? about decolonisation being something that holds Maori down, confines them. So they can’t move away from it ever, and be more than a singular self.

^ “full deployment of the general intellect falls beyond the sphere of capitalism”.

“sensibility is the ability to understand what cannot be verbalised”

This is what I think Shannon brings out so eloquently in his work for other people. Creating a space for that sensibility to flow. Like how I hope Dani and my work did in our collaborative, poetical text based work ‘soft afternoon’.

“...time has been fragmented and depersonalised”.

Because of capitalism, we don’t feel we have the time or space to take time with poetry, or non capitialist language. All our time is taken by surviving under capitalism.

“the conscious organism  appears to increasingly inhibit what we call sensibility. By sensibility, I mean the faculty that enables human beings to interpret signs that are not verbal nor can be made so, the ability to understand what cannot be expressed in forms that have finite syntax”.

^We all have the ability to understand, or take something away from poetry. There are so many ways to interpret poetical writing, and none of which are wrong. It depends on our different angles of sensibilities that exist in us. Therefore it is accessible to all (?).

"..sensibility tends to slow down the process of interpretation, making them ambiguous and downgrading the competitive efficiency of the semiotic agent. Sensibility is in time, and we need time to understand the hypercomplex communication of the body”

^To wait for people to make up their minds is inefficient. It is anti capitalist.

The importance of aesthetics.

“aesthetics is the science dedicated to the study of the contact between the derma (the skin, the sensitive surface of our body and mind) and different chemical, physical, electromagnetic, electronic, and informational flows”.

How and why we perceive things the way they are. Again I am thinking about Shannon’s work, and how he triggers our sensibilities, pulls us into his work. In one of the ways, aesthetically.

“Guattari views the universe as a continuum of diverse and interrelated entities in bodily contact with each other"

rittournelles, semiotic markers of rhythm. Rhythm is the common substance of signs (word, music, vision) and the brain.

DEFINITION OF rittournelle/ ritornello

a short instrumental refrain or interlude in a vocal work.

Shannon mentioned in our crit about cadence. The first time I had heard this word. Now it is everything. I see it here. I see it in all thoughtful, poetic art now, including ours.

the paralysis of empathy

we want to re engage empathetic thinking

“Poetry is languages excess: poetry is what in language cannot be reduced to information, and is not exchangeable, but gives way to a new common ground of understanding, of shared meaning: the creation is a new world... poetry is a singular vibration of the voice”.

singularity (in my definition)- just being, feeling.

sensibility

noun

1.the quality of being able to appreciate and respond to complex emotional or aesthetic influences; sensitivity.

“We call poetry the semiotic concatenation that exceeds the sphere of exchange and the codified correspondence of the signifier and the signified; it is the semiotic concatenation that that creates new pathways of signification and opens the way to a reactivation of the relation between sensibility and time”.

“semiotic concatenation” - what a beautifully wankey pair of words. But I understand what it’s saying and I see it’s value. Seemingly unrelated words, that come together and transform writing into something poetical. But without time to take it in to allow the sensibility to come through there is no point. Berardi argues that poetry, by existing, forces these variables into play (?).

...in the ability to treat words according to an unrepeatable singular procedure...an artificial treatment of verbal matter generating effects of meaning never seen and codified before...

Poetical procedure is a form of estrangement... that carries the world far and away from it’s common use.

Funky fresh metaphors abstract the world as we know it. Break what we understand on the surface driven capital language, so we can feel more, experience more. Nice. Something Dani and I tried to do and to some point exceeded in our collaboration ‘Soft Afternoon’. Eliciting a feeling rather than logic.

Art is therapy, treating capitalist mindsets. Taking us back to our selves.